Bartolomé de Las Casas Describes the Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, 1542 Bartolomé de Las Casas, a Spanish Dominican priest, wrote directly to the King of Spain hoping for new laws to prevent the brutal exploitation of Native Americans. Las Casas’s writings quickly spread around Europe and were used as humanitarian justification for other European nations … Continue reading Bartolomé de Las Casas Describes the Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, 1542